â€œI haven't found a way to recreate the shadows he had on these paragraph boxesâ€¦â€

456 Berea Street has some great instructions for creating various CSS shadows at http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/dropshadow/, http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/softdropshadow/ and http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/transparent_custom_corners_borders/.